Bell Hooks Quotes

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

The world has made being black a crime .... I hope to make it a virtue.

Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of Occidental civilization. We must overcome!

Racism doesn't go overnight. It's over a period of time and education.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

The white devil's time is up.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.